Policies, decisions adopted by the 12th Party Congress of the Vietnam People's Army (VPA) for the 2025-2030 tenure provide important guidance for building a clean, strong, exemplary Military Party Organisation, and develop a revolutionary, regular, elite, and modern people’s army, said Party General Secretary To Lam.

The 12th Party Congress of the Vietnam People’s Army, the 2025–2030 tenure, opened in Hanoi on September 30 morning.

IPACC-14, IPAMS-49, and SELF-11 highlighted the importance of building trust and strengthening defence relations through open communications with the conferences aiming to promote regional army cooperation to address both current and future security challenges in the Indo-Pacific.

VOV.VN - Party General Secretary To Lam has highlighted the historic lesson that building the nation must go hand in hand with defending it, calling for stronger combat readiness and modernization to respond to new security challenges.

General Trinh Van Quyet, Chairman of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People’s Army had a meeting with visiting Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba Corps General Álvaro López Miera in Hanoi on September 3.

Igari Kasumasa, later known in Vietnam as “comrade Phan Lai,” was a former Japanese army officer who gave up the imperial uniform to join the Viet Minh, a decision that transformed his life and laid the foundation for a touching bond between the two nations and peoples.

VOV.VN - President Luong Cuong hosted a reception on August 11 in Hanoi for Lieutenant General Vongsone Inpanphim, Deputy Minister of National Defence and Chairman of the General Political Department of the Lao People’s Army, who is on an official visit to Vietnam.

VOV.VN - Lieutenant General Vongsone Inpanphim, Deputy Minister of National Defence, Chairman of the General Political Department of the Lao People's Army, and his spouse paid an official visit to Vietnam from August 10-14.

Party General Secretary To Lam has asked Army Corps 12 to focus on political and ideological education while building its officers and soldiers with political mettle, ready to serve as the military’s “steel fist”.

VOV.VN - General Phan Van Giang, Politburo member, Deputy Secretary of the Central Military Commission, and Minister of National Defence, hosted a welcome ceremony for Singaporean Minister for Defence Chan Chun Sing, who is visiting the Vietnamese Ministry of National Defence on the morning of July 22 in Hanoi.